However, since it opened in 1998, Google has added portal-style discussion groups and is testing a comparison shopping site called Froogle, as well as a news site.
Is that really a "discussion groups" section as much as Google's newsgroup browser? It's not really a Google service as much as a Google interface to a web-wide service.
So what's wrong if Google becomes a portal? I certainly see enough people complaining about it. As long as the search engine still works pretty well...
As for "locking in" users, I would hardly compare this to the wonderful lock-in schemes we've seen out of Redmond.
Google email... would that mean that they parse my text and attach a keyword-based ad to it?:)
And even features within programs, like the ability to forward e-mail messages, will be shut off.
Yes, that's right, the article made that prediction. You won't be able to forward email. Sure.
Wow. That is insanely stupid. I *cannot* believe this. You must have made this up, no one in their right mind could have come up with this. I'm going to RTFA now...
(later) Wow. Never underestimate the stupidity of the press with regards to computers.
"Customers are better off today than they were a year ago, and they will be even better off in the future," said Kevin Kean, a group manager at Microsoft's Security Response Center.
In related news, the chocolate ration has been increased to 5 grams.
Whiner. I was stuck on an old fuzzy Gateway 2000 14" SVGA for far much, much longer than I should have been... the torture!:)
Then I bought a Samsung 950p (19" goodness). And my current roommate has a NEC MultiSync 1765 (17" flat, stylish, and good-looking).
Forget 61" TVs, I just want a 38" LCD monitor at >= 72dpi and I'll be good.:)
It may turn out that Alzheimer's is due to mad cow, or its predecessor, mad sheep (scrapie).
There is little to no chance that alzheimers is caused by mad-cow. Is it a related disease? Perhaps. The same disease? Not a chance. The simplest assumption would be that there is far more mad cow in the system than anyone wants to say
This is stupid. The *simplest* assumption is that there is no mad cow in the system, and to assume that the above is an insane conspiracy theory. Perhaps the fact that there is no known mad cow in the system holds less weight with you than it should.
My IBM ThinkPad R40 launches Knoppix just fine, and the local computer science department is going to be giving me a hard drive upgrade to dual-boot once I get into the CSC 112 class.
I have run into precisely two faults with my Knoppix games. One, it won't speak to the integrated modem (now that I'm back in the dorm with my LAN connection, not an issue!) Two, I can't turn off the touchpad (sorry, I prefer the TrackPoint and keep brushing up against the touchpad irregularly).
Hear hear! http://localhost runs Apache... Sorry that I'm stuck with Win Doze, but I'm going dual-boot soon. (University issues prevent a full Linux hard drive =/)
In any case, what is *sad* to see is all my access logs with 5kr1p+ k1dd135 trying to break into my system by using some IIS exploit... =b
I just moved back to the dorm, so this may be just me, but that one site looks like it's Slashdotted or something and I can't load it. . . .
Now that's what I call art!:)
Well, it's not *too* badly organized... I'm no neat freak myself, when it comes to hard drives or to my dorm. And Winamp3 *is* about the crappiest item they saw fit to burden me with. The rest I just tended to ignore...
My mom (silly mommy!) got me Civ II: Test of Time for my birthday. I figured I'd go poke my way through it. The case contained the CD and a note saying that the manual was available online. Unfortunately, the link is broken and there's no sign of contact information, in sight or otherwise. =b
Slashdot Mirror
Efficient, but not fast. :) 1500 hours thrust time and they're still not there? Meh.
What about Slashdot's schemes? How good are they? :)
But K and K is a comic strip by Bill Holbrook. =b
(-1 Offtopic, here I come).
Is that really a "discussion groups" section as much as Google's newsgroup browser? It's not really a Google service as much as a Google interface to a web-wide service.
So what's wrong if Google becomes a portal? I certainly see enough people complaining about it. As long as the search engine still works pretty well... :)
As for "locking in" users, I would hardly compare this to the wonderful lock-in schemes we've seen out of Redmond.
Google email... would that mean that they parse my text and attach a keyword-based ad to it?
Wow. That is insanely stupid. I *cannot* believe this. You must have made this up, no one in their right mind could have come up with this. I'm going to RTFA now...
(later) Wow. Never underestimate the stupidity of the press with regards to computers.
When I post my paper on my personal website, and then the service says I plagarized myself, what happens? =b
"The birds, the birds! ARRGGHH!" :)
Isn't Hitchcock a great director?
I thought that all of SCO's employees were lawyers... they're a litigation company, not a software company! :)
Or so I'm told by the crowd around here.
How many people are going to confuse and/or joke about mitochondria versus midichlorians? Too many. =b
Slashdot is hardly casual conversation with regards to SCO articles. Too much (making) fun with (of) legalese.
Whiner. I was stuck on an old fuzzy Gateway 2000 14" SVGA for far much, much longer than I should have been... the torture! :) :)
Then I bought a Samsung 950p (19" goodness). And my current roommate has a NEC MultiSync 1765 (17" flat, stylish, and good-looking).
Forget 61" TVs, I just want a 38" LCD monitor at >= 72dpi and I'll be good.
It may turn out that Alzheimer's is due to mad cow, or its predecessor, mad sheep (scrapie). There is little to no chance that alzheimers is caused by mad-cow. Is it a related disease? Perhaps. The same disease? Not a chance.
The simplest assumption would be that there is far more mad cow in the system than anyone wants to say
This is stupid. The *simplest* assumption is that there is no mad cow in the system, and to assume that the above is an insane conspiracy theory. Perhaps the fact that there is no known mad cow in the system holds less weight with you than it should.
At Wake Forest University, ROTC and Information Systems share a building (#26 on the campus map).
My IBM ThinkPad R40 launches Knoppix just fine, and the local computer science department is going to be giving me a hard drive upgrade to dual-boot once I get into the CSC 112 class.
I have run into precisely two faults with my Knoppix games. One, it won't speak to the integrated modem (now that I'm back in the dorm with my LAN connection, not an issue!) Two, I can't turn off the touchpad (sorry, I prefer the TrackPoint and keep brushing up against the touchpad irregularly).
Hear hear! http://localhost runs Apache... Sorry that I'm stuck with Win Doze, but I'm going dual-boot soon. (University issues prevent a full Linux hard drive =/)
In any case, what is *sad* to see is all my access logs with 5kr1p+ k1dd135 trying to break into my system by using some IIS exploit... =b
I just moved back to the dorm, so this may be just me, but that one site looks like it's Slashdotted or something and I can't load it. :)
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Now that's what I call art!
Well, it's not *too* badly organized... I'm no neat freak myself, when it comes to hard drives or to my dorm. And Winamp3 *is* about the crappiest item they saw fit to burden me with. The rest I just tended to ignore...
You don't need to do it over the station wagon... Myself, I get excellent bandwidth well in excess of 100Mbps from http://127.0.0.1 :)
"Using red lasers would make US the evil empire, instead of... of..."
:) ;)
instead of Iraq?
Red lasers also have the leftover-from-cold-war Communist connotation... darned Russkies!
My mom (silly mommy!) got me Civ II: Test of Time for my birthday. I figured I'd go poke my way through it. The case contained the CD and a note saying that the manual was available online. Unfortunately, the link is broken and there's no sign of contact information, in sight or otherwise. =b
No. It came preloaded on my laptop.
That's a lie. 90% of all statistics are made up *on the spot*. ;)
Anyone remember Digger? With the Popcorn song playing in the background? Now *that* is good music there :)